Report: Dems planted NJ tea-party House candidate

[OmahaBlueDog]

Source: AP via Yahoo News

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. – A New Jersey Republican congressional candidate criticized his Democratic opponent Friday amid mounting evidence that Democratic officials planted a tea-party candidate in the race to siphon off conservative votes.

"My opponent, John Adler, represents everything that is wrong with politics in our country today," Republican Jon Runyan said. "I would ask for an apology. But frankly, an apology from someone like Congressman Adler would be so meaningless that it's not worth seeking."

He spoke at a news conference Friday as Adler, a first-term Democratic lawmaker, and his campaign remained mum about a report in the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill in which Democratic operatives speaking on the condition of anonymity confirmed what Republicans have believed for months: That tea-party candidate Peter DeStefano was put on the ballot by Democrats.

The operatives said a county Democratic employee is running at least the Web elements of DeStefano's campaign.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101008/ap_on_el_ho/us_plant_candidate

[McCamy Taylor]

1. But it's ok if the GOP does it with Greens?

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. No, that never happens....

:evilgrin:

[stray cat]

4. No - we complained making us hypocrites if we are doing it as well

Right=left on this one

[NinetySix]

7. Don't you mean Greene?

Alvin Greene?

[emilyg]

8. Not ok if we're becoming like them.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. our leadership...

did that long ago.

[emilyg]

16. Sad. You are right.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. but don't listen to me...

I am a professional leftist :hi:

[tblue37]

18. AND with Alvin Green in SC. nt

[readmoreoften]

25. Uh no. FAIL. No one should be doing this.

[txlibdem]

3. Just paying them back for the Blue Dog conservadems!

You're welcome. You wanna play? Ok, we'll play by your rules for a couple of decades and see how you like it.

[stray cat]

5. Lucky you can replace them with real conservatives! Great plan!

[txlibdem]

21. No, the money wasted on DINOs will be channeled into true Democrats elsewhere.

We will take away seats in other districts that should not belong to Rethugs. With Nelson voting against every Democratic bill he can what good do you think it actually does to have a "D" stamped on his seat in congress?!? With Blanche Lincoln siding with insurance companies and corporations against the American worker every chance she gets why do you think it matters what letter is after her name?!?

Take away every penny we spend on the Blue Dogs and use it to push struggling TRUE Democrats over the top wherever possible.

And just a side note, I don't give a crap if we have 60 seats in the Senate or not. All we need is a simple majority and a speaker with a backbone!

[demi moore]

6. let them duke it out

over who can be biggest corporate shill

its feed forward loop..

[Historic NY]

9. IOKIYAR.

[bloomington-lib]

10. Don't vote for crazy teabaggers, they might be plants...whatever works

Although it would be nice to actually have politicians who are honest.

[Turbineguy]

12. Really?

How terribly republican of them.

[AlbertCat]

13. Individuals vs groups

So all Dems aren't pure. All Repugs aren't dreadful. But as groups, more people do better under Dems than Repugs.

[Downwinder]

14. Politics as usual. n/t

[penndragon69]

15. The pot calls the kettle black!

Of course it's OK for them to do the same,
but let someone else use THEIR playbook
INTOLERABLE !

[totodeinhere]

17. Good. It's about time we started playing hardball with those assholes.

No more Mr. Nice Guy.

[readmoreoften]

26. That's what you call fighting back? Supporting vicious right-wing elements?

In hopes that it will help you win center-right voters so you can make up for all the progressives you screwed?

It's not hardball, it's desperate bullshit.

[No Elephants]

19. Nothing new. JFK's first election as a Congressional Rep. probably wasn't

the first time, either. It's part of our local collective memory, though.

[JustAnotherGen]

22. Well I live in NJ

This is just par for the course: IF it's even true.

It's only true when the people who 'supposedly' said that come out of the shadows. Just because the republican candidate said "It's so" doesn't mean it IS so.

[silver10]

23. If it's true

Nice job! They deserve it if they are stupid enough to vote for the racist tea-baggers! Maybe they can plant a pretend repuke too! Bout time the dems grew a pair. Fight fire with fire!

[AndrewP]

28. After reading a book about the 1988 campaign, I don't have any problem

with this.

The bastards are dirty and evil. It's better to be pure if you can, but politics is about winning.

[OregonBlue]

24. I hope it is true. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. But of course they are whining

that it's not fair when Dems do it. :bounce: :bounce:

[readmoreoften]

27. I wonder how many people here would support Glenn Beck to get Obama elected.

"Hey, if we fund fascists we can make the Republicans look so bad that we can win the center-right vote and win the progressives and unionists out of fear and desperation."

Talk about the politics of cynicism and spinelessness.

Real courage (or at least a little molecule of backbone) is refusing to sign RW bills (like Obama did yesterday).

This is nothing but cowardice from people who don't have a platform.

[mtowngman]

29. I live in Burlington County, N.J. and will be voting in this election

while I'm not in love with this tactic, I'll live with it. Politics is dirty business and on the whole, they've played dirtier for longer. Pitting an asshole tea-bagger against an asshole republican is okay with me.